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aredhel-erinti
4 months ago

I was entertaining myself with Google Earth (as you do) and "found" this giant submarine channel southwest of Ireland.

I Was Entertaining Myself With Google Earth (as You Do) And "found" This Giant Submarine Channel Southwest

This is the Gollum Channel System in the Porcupine Seabight basin.

The name catched my attention, of course, so I opened the first article about this huge underwater canyon (this one) and look what I found:

I Was Entertaining Myself With Google Earth (as You Do) And "found" This Giant Submarine Channel Southwest
I Was Entertaining Myself With Google Earth (as You Do) And "found" This Giant Submarine Channel Southwest

They're all there!!! Someone had fun with the the naming of these smaller canyons! This is the best thing in a long time...

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gollum hobbits tolkien this is so so interesting! I want to know everything about it how does it look down there the article says it isn't the result of glaciation which is what I would assume apparently it's older gollum channel system north atlantic
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